SICKNESS, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF HOLDEN CAULFIELD
Beyond the mind of the brilliant Salinger himself, and outside the bounds of traditional literary analysis, reside the original sins of this country: genocide and slavery, the germs of a debilitating American sickness, which Holden inherits.
What will redeem that sin and cure that illness is a purgative and ecstatic pilgrimage to the wounded American soul, as guided by insights offered by the Baha'i Faith, an emergent religion that speaks of resilience, reform, and renewal.
Miller's insights depend for their credibility upon the intensity of our discomfort with the way things are, the terror of our intuition that we are on the verge of something unprecedented, and a willingness to consider something as foreign and seemingly obsolete as spiritual authority, especially in the face of what our robust and technologically astute culture has come to assume.
Miller, a Baha'i, says he is even more in love with the great promise of this country, more Indian, more Black, and more woman, and not less American but more deeply so, by virtue of having taken that pilgrimage and having, himself, grown up.
THE AUTHOR
Bradford Miller was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1946, grew up in Seneca Falls, and now lives in Rochester, New York. He holds the EdM from Harvard's Graduate School of Education, and spent his career as a counselor in independent secondary schools. He is the author of Soul of the Maine House and Returning to Seneca Falls.
- Author: Bradford Miller
- Volume Title: Sickness, Death, and Resurrection of Holden Caulfield
- Trim Size: 5.5" X 8"
- Total pages: 206
- ISBN: 978-0-578-32992-5
- Paperback